Selenium Webdriver throws exception "org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException" on the use of quit() method

[www.automation.lifegoeasy.com]

My code -
    1.        driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    2.        driver.get("url...");
    3.        driver.quit();
    4.        driver.close();
    5.        driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
    6.        driver.get("url...");

first 4 line works fine, Eclipse throws below error on 5th line & browser is not started.

Error Message =
    org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.
    Build info: version: '2.25.0', revision: '17482', time: '2012-07-18 21:08:56'
    System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_21'
     Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

[Maxim Vorobev]

Show full stacktrace. I'll bet you get exception on 4th line, cuz

http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.html#quit()

Quits this driver, closing every associated window.

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

I believe you should first do a driver.close() and then do a driver.quit()

Try changing the order of (3) and (4) and see if that helps

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[www.automation.lifegoeasy.com]

I commented quit() method, exception is not thrown but browser is getting closed at the end of execution. I changed the order of quit() & close method, it still throws same error.

[Maxim Vorobev]

Show full code and full stacktrace.

Also read about quit() and close()  semantics:

http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.html

[Umamaheshwar Thota]

Actually the error is on 4th line only and definitely it will be on line 4 because the error will be displayed on the next line where it hasn't find the required code to execute on screen.

Both the line 3 and 4 are similar. remove any one and execute.

cheers,
Umamaheshwar Thota

On Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:56:58 AM UTC+5:30, www.automation.lifegoeasy.com wrote:

[Mark Collin]

A quit will perform a close.

Trying to close a browser that has already been closed will cause an error.

If you really want to quit don't close, just quit. Close is really
designed to close one browser window when you have multiple windows open.